Managing your dashboard

Your dashboard allows you to keep track of the information you need at a glance. Each panel is designed to present you with the most up-to-date, relevant information you need. Monitor your coursework progress, check today's schedule, or respond to an email message, for example.

You can select which panels to display and you can also move and resize the panels in the order that works for you.

To select which panels to display:

Open the account pull-down menu in the upper-right corner. The label for the menu contains your name and user role in parenthesis.
Select Manage Dashboard. The dashboard changes to custom-mode. The names of the dashboard panels are displayed. Disable the panels that you do not want to display. For example, if you do not need to monitor discussions, disable the Discussion check box. The Discussion panel is removed from the Dashboard.

You can return custom-mode to re-enable panels if necessary.
Click DONE to save your changes. To reset the changes, click RESET.

To move and resize panels:

Open the account pull-down menu in the upper-right corner. The label for the menu contains your name and user role in parenthesis.
Select Manage Dashboard. The dashboard changes to custom-mode.
To move a panel, select the panel by clicking the label of the panel while holding down the mouse button. (The move cursor appears when you hover over the label.) Next, move the cursor to position the panel in the appropriate location on the dashboard. For example, to move the Calendar to the top-left position, click the word Calendar and move the panel to the upper-left position on the Dashboard.
To resize a panel, hover over a side or corner of the panel until one of the resize cursors appear. Then click and move the cursor while holding down the mouse button. Release the mouse when you are at the appropriate size. Dotted lines show the new size of the panel. For example, to widen the view of the Calendar, hover over the right side of the Calendar panel and move your cursor to the right.
Click Done to save your changes.